Manners are the root, laws only the trunk and branches. Manners are the archetypes of laws. Manners are laws in their infancy; laws are manners fully grown,--or, manners are children, which, when they grow up, become laws. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
NO error is infused into the young mind, to lie there dormant, or to be reproduced only when the subject of thought or action recurs to which the error belongs; but the error becomes a model or archetype, after whose… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The earth endured Christ's ministry only three years;--not three weeks after his real character and purposes were generally known. — Horace Mann Copy Share
If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also… — Horace Mann Copy Share
The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in his own body. Its life, to a great extent, is… — Horace Mann Copy Share
The pulpit only "teaches" to be honest; the market-place "trains" to overreaching and fraud; and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiency of… — Horace Mann Copy Share
On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there. — Horace Mann Copy Share
So, in the infinitely nobler battle in which you are engaged against error and wrong, if ever repulsed or stricken down, may you always… — Horace Mann Copy Share
We conceive of immortality as having a beginning, but no end; but we conceive of eternity as having neither beginning nor end. Hence it… — Horace Mann Copy Share
In our country and in our times no man is worthy the honored name of statesman who does not include the highest practicable education… — Horace Mann Copy Share
Even the choicest literature should be taken as the condiment, and not as the sustenance of life. It should be neither the warp nor… — Horace Mann Copy Share
Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence. — Horace Mann Copy Share
After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only two absolute… — Horace Mann Copy Share
Let the Common School be expanded to its capabilities, let it be worked with the efficiency of which it is susceptible, and nine tenths… — Horace Mann Copy Share
Resistance to improvement contradicts the noblest instincts of the race. It begets its opposite. The fanaticism of reform is only the raging of the… — Horace Mann Copy Share
